BIHAR

Jharkhand HC puts off hearing to Jan 8 in Lalu jail manual violation matter

11:13 pm December 18, 2020

Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Friday put off to January 8 the matter relating to violation of jail manuals by RJD president Lalu Prasad in RIMS after the state government failed to satisfactorily answer the bench queries. The court of Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh directed the state government to come prepared with all relevant […]

Bihar cabinet gives its nod to free COVID-19 vaccination

11:40 pm December 15, 2020

Patna: Inoculation of the entire population of Bihar for COVID-19 will be done free of cost upon the availability of the vaccine, the state cabinet resolved on Tuesday. The decision was taken at the first meeting of the cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar since the allocation of portfolios last month. The cabinet gave its go ahead for […]

CR's Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani train to run from Dec 30

UP STF busts racket selling tatkal train tickets, arrests mastermind

11:30 pm December 13, 2020

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has busted a racket selling tatkal tickets of the Indian Railways and arrested its mastermind from the Chhavni police station area in Basti district, it said in a statement on Sunday. A total of 245 train tickets, including 243 tatkal tickets used in the past, a mobile phone, two […]

4 arrested on charge of theft flee from lock-up in Bihar

11:27 pm December 13, 2020

Madhepura : Four persons, arrested on the charge of theft, escaped from a police station in Bihar’s Madhepura district on Sunday, officials said. They were arrested on Saturday during a drive to tackle the increasing numbers of thefts in the town, said Suresh Kumar Singh, the station house officer (SHO) of the Sadar police station. […]

7 killed in cyclone Yaas in Bihar;Nitish orders payment of Rs 4 lakh each compensation to their families

Nitish visits new archaeological site under river bed

11:18 pm December 12, 2020

Patna: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday flew down to a remote part of a central Bihar district where an archaeological site, said to be more than 2,500 years old, has been discovered underneath a river bed. The site is located in Amarpur block of Banka district, about 300 kms from here, and it came to light […]